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‘Tempo’ suffers cyberattack following online gambling reports
The premium section of news magazine Tempo's website was inaaccessible several times between Monday and Wednesday due to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks following the outlet's publication of investigative report on an online gambling ring in Cambodia, which is reportedly controlled by several Indonesian high-ranking officials.
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Editions of 'Tempo' magazine are seen on a bookshelf in this illustration photo taken on Oct. 6, 2024. (Shutterstock/landunggrafis)
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he website of news magazine Tempo has suffered a cyberattack following the publication of its latest report on an online gambling ring in Cambodia, which is reportedly linked to several Indonesian politicians and businesspeople.
Tempo suffered from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks with a sudden increase of traffic requests from Monday to Wednesday, paralyzing the connection to the website, its deputy editor-in-chief Bagja Hidayat told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
He added that Tempo had applied a security system to deter such cyberattacks. But the latest wave of DDoS disrupted its premium content page, rendering the website inaccessible for a while.
“It seems that the perpetrator wants to prevent readers from accessing our premium news about online gambling,” Bagja said, referring to Tempo’s latest investigative report from Sihanoukville and Poipet, Cambodia.
In a separate statement issued on Thursday, Tempo editor-in-chief Setri Yasra said the requests for traffic into the website during the early phase of the DDoS attack came from several countries. But between Wednesday and Thursday, most of the requests came from Cambodia, where traffic requests were twice as high as usual.
Tempo also detected several attacks coming from within Indonesia.
“The local attacks were the most bothersome because we can’t block them. But we have at least contained them for now,” Setri said.
